Back Porch Reading: Scott W. Williams & Sharon Niederman - June 3, 2025
Tuesday June 3rd, 2025 In person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse - Back Porch Reading series
Doors open 6 pm
Reading starts 7 pm
Featuring New York visiting poet Scott W.. Williams and Albuquerque poet Sharon Niederman
Reading from new works, followed by conversation.
$12 per person limited seating, includes pizza, wine, lemonade. Must RSVP.
Back Porch readings are limited seating and include pizza from Placitas Pizza (veggie and gluten free options available), wine/beer/lemonade in an intimate and beautiful setting. Summer solstice time with usually a fabulous sunset viewed from Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Back Porch. Authors will have books for sale and will sign copies.
Tuesday June 3rd, 2025 In person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse - Back Porch Reading series
Doors open 6 pm
Reading starts 7 pm
Featuring New York visiting poet Scott W.. Williams and Albuquerque poet Sharon Niederman
Reading from new works, followed by conversation.
$12 per person limited seating, includes pizza, wine, lemonade. Must RSVP.
Back Porch readings are limited seating and include pizza from Placitas Pizza (veggie and gluten free options available), wine/beer/lemonade in an intimate and beautiful setting. Summer solstice time with usually a fabulous sunset viewed from Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Back Porch. Authors will have books for sale and will sign copies.
Tuesday June 3rd, 2025 In person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse - Back Porch Reading series
Doors open 6 pm
Reading starts 7 pm
Featuring New York visiting poet Scott W.. Williams and Albuquerque poet Sharon Niederman
Reading from new works, followed by conversation.
$12 per person limited seating, includes pizza, wine, lemonade. Must RSVP.
Back Porch readings are limited seating and include pizza from Placitas Pizza (veggie and gluten free options available), wine/beer/lemonade in an intimate and beautiful setting. Summer solstice time with usually a fabulous sunset viewed from Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Back Porch. Authors will have books for sale and will sign copies.
Sharon Niederman has lived in Albuquerque’s North Valley, walked its ditches and listened for the seasonal crane migrations along the Rio Grande for many decades. She currently lives in Los Ranchos with her husband, Charles Henry and mini golden doodle, Pasquale. Known for her award-winning travel and food writing, she is also a novelist, photographer, historian and most recently, author of a book of poetry, Ungentrified: Poems of the North Valley and Beyond. She holds a BA from George Washington University, an MA from University of Colorado, and studied writing with Tony Hillerman and Rudolfo Anaya. She attended her first poetry readings at St. Mark’s Church Poetry Project, where she was fortunate to be inspired by the likes of Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso.
For many years a prolific freelancer, she is past president of the New Mexico Press Women and served on the boards of the New Mexico Humanities Council and the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. She is former restaurant reviewer for the Albuquerque Journal; arts editor of Santa Fe Reporter; and SW correspondent for Sunset Magazine. Her essays, profiles and features have appeared in numerous regional and national publications. New to reading her work in public, she feels compelled to raise her voice and share the compositions that mysteriously arrive, lines ready for tinkering, the fruit of a life of reading and wordplay.
Scott W. Williams was born during WWII on Staten Island NY and raised in Baltimore, MD, He took his BS from Morgan State University and PhD from Lehigh University in Mathematics. Scott’s teaching journey includes Professor at University at Buffalo, Fullbright Professor Charles University Prague Czech Republic, Adjunct Professor Beijing Teachers University Beijing China and Professor Emeritus University at Buffalo, NY.
Scott has been widely published in magazines such as Coffeehouse, Cryptic, Juniper Poetry, Punch Drunk Press, Peach Mag, Oddball Magazine, Rigorous, Rundelania, Mason Street Review, and various anthologies and newspapers.
Scott’s recent books include For Richard Wright (Clair Songbirds 2025) and Gamblers Woods (Moonstone, 2025).
Other works are Bonvibre Haiku (PWP 2017), and three volumes of A Flash of Dark I, II, III (Writer’s Den 2017, 2018).
Scott is co-host for the Sea of Coffee Open Mic with Stephen Lewandowski and GS Murphy in Canandaigua, New York. Welcome Scott Williams on his tour through the Land of Enchantment.
